Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Affected with greening, or having green-gill: said of oysters.

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Examples

  • Reflections of retreating candle-flame gleamed against its wet, slimy cobbles, and the joints of the masonry walls were green-bearded with sparkling nitre.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Reflections of retreating candle-flame gleamed against its wet, slimy cobbles, and the joints of the masonry walls were green-bearded with sparkling nitre.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Straight before me, beyond green-bearded rocks dripping with foam, a little stone house, or temple, with columns and balconies of marble, stood hushed upon the cliff by the waterside.

    Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914

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